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Divorced. Richard Boiling, 47, Democratic Congressman from Kansas City, a Kennedy Administration stalwart but currently in hot water with Johnson for refusing to return from vacation for the recent foreign aid vote; by Barbara Stratton Boiling, 53; after 18 years of marriage, one child; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno...
...Married. Barbara Davis Sherry, 16, blonde daughter of Cinematron Bette Davis; and Jeremy Hyman, 29, film executive assigned to escort her at the Cannes Film Festival; in Beverly Hills...
...Some say "bar-bit-yourates" and others "barbi-tyoo-rates"; both are right according to medical and lay dictionaries. How the drug family got its name is also a fielder's choice. Some say that German Chemist Adolf Baeyer named barbiturates for St. Barbara, on whose day in 1862 he first extracted the drug in pure form. But medical historians think it was named for a waitress in Munich who contributed urine samples for the research. Others say it was a waitress named Barbara all right, and Baeyer got the samples easily because she was his mistress...
...Early Decision Plan, which Radcliffe will drop next year, has been found "extremely satisfactory" at Wellesley and will probably be expanded during the next few years, Barbara Clough, director of Admissions at Wellesley, said yesterday...
Disagreeing with Wellesley's policy, Miss Barbara Ziegler, Wheaton director of Admissions, defended her school's recent decision to join Radcliffe in dropping the program. She noted that early commitment to a college limited the senior's opportunity for growth and change. "It just pushes the college anxiety complex down into the younger grades," she added...